Shifting-rail



A. I. SHULER.

L e d o M SHIFTING RAIL.

Patented July 10, 1883.;

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UNITED STATES ANDREW F. SHULER,

PATENT OFFICE.

OF ARCANUM, OHIO.

SHlFTlNG-RAIL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 281,146, dated July 10, 1883.

Application filed February 3, 1883. (Model) To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, ANDREW F. SHULER, of Areanum, in the county of Darke and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Buggy-Seat Shifting- Rails, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

The object of the invention is to improve the shift-ingrails of buggy-wagons, as hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification, in which the figure is a perspective View of a buggy-scat contrived according to my invention.

I propose to make the shifting-rail a in two parts, lapping them at the middle, so that said rail may be readily applied to seats of difierent lengths without cutting and welding it, the said parts being lapped more or less at the middle of the back of the seat, according to the length of the seat to which it is to be applied.

For fastening the shiftingrail to the seat back and sides, so as to prevent it from rattling, and at the same time to enable it to be taken oiI readily, I propose to employ seatirons b, each having a cap, 0, in which irons and caps suitable bearing-cavities for the rail are formed, for securing it by bolting them together at d, and also at the ends 6, so as to clamp the rail firmly between them. The iron and cap located at the middle of the back,

where the two parts of the rail lap each other, will have double bearing-cavities for both the parts of the rail, and the cap of this iron, and also the caps of those irons next to the topprop rests f, will be secured at the outer ends by bolts 9; but for the rest I propose to utilize the seat-arms h and the back-stays i by forming shouldered screw-bolts on them, suit able for bolting the caps on by nuts screwed on below the irons b.

For the top-prop rests f, I propose to bend the shifting-rail, as shown at j suitably to forge the rests out of the ends of the loops made by so bending them, in order to avoid welding said rests on the rail, which makes much more substantial and durable rests. The brace-rests 70 will be formed on the ends of the rods.

It will be seen that by the substantial way of holding the shifting-rail that I have provided the said rail will be held as firmly in its position in the separate parts which I propose as whenmade in one continuous rod.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The top-prop rests f, formed on bent loops j of the shifting-rail a, substantially as described.

ANDRE'W I SHULER.

\Vitnesses:

J. R. RATLIFF, ELI FORD. 

